Sunday, June 29

I'm holding here a bookNotable, but not the greatestStolen for me by the latestIn a long line of thievesAnd I'm just about to drop itDown that manhole of memoriesWhen I realize it doesn't bother meLike love's mementos usually doAnd I look up to see who's different hereThe latest me or the latest youCourse, you're the kind of guy who doesn't lieHe just doctors everythingChooses some unassuming fingerAnd quietly moves his wedding ringWho rewrites his autobiographyFor any pretty girl who'll singBut you can't fool the queen, babyCuz I married the king

And maybe it was I who betrayed his majestyWith no opposite realityLike a puddle with no reflectionOf the sky or the treesBut after my dreaded beheadingI tied that sucker back on with a stringAnd I guess I'm pretty different nowConsidering

I kissed you on the street that nightOn the far side of fourBut I didn't like the tasteIn my mouth or yoursAnd ignoring the persona you wore for my benefitFor once I had the balls to call itJust call itBut a lesson must be livedIn order to be learnedAnd the clarity to see and stop this nowThat is what I've earned

And maybe it was I who betrayed his majestyWith no opposite realityLike a puddle with no reflectionOf the sky or the treesBut after my dreaded beheadingI tied that sucker back on with a stringAnd I guess I'm pretty different nowConsidering

I'm holding here a bookNotable, but not the greatestStolen for me by the latestIn a long line of thievesAnd I'm just about to drop itDown that manhole of memoriesWhen I realize it doesn't bother meAnd heartache not so direCuz I looked up to see integrityFinally won over desire

watch this uTube flick from Ani, (click on her name) and you will understand why I have sympathy for her

I haven't done a photo session with a model in quite a while. This bothers me a bit, because time flies by and the exuberance of such an event always makes you smile, in a good way... and I miss those smiles.My next project would be situated out in nature, natural environment with natural nudity.Mingling stones, seawater and shrubs.If you know anybody or you are willing to volunteer yourself, we will share the laughter, crackers and cheese and the champaign. The location can be anywhere, but I prefer it to be on the island if at all possible.I also will consider male volunteers, it is just so darn difficult to make their bodies glow... maybe something I have to still conquer. Mapplethorpe's imagery and photographs are just hard to live up to. I am tempted these days to say goodbye to digital imagery and focus on medium or large analog format. We'll see! Anyway, line up some volunteers. The results, you can keep and share them later, enjoying your youthful spirit with others.

Saturday, June 28

World War 2

World War 3

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Commonly Believed Cause of WW2

Three years of mounting international tension - encompassing the Spanish Civil War, the Anschluss (union) of Germany and Austria, Hitler's occupation of the Sudetenland and the invasion of Czechoslovakia - provided the setting for a likely world war.

In March,1939, Hitler demanded that Poland allow Germany to annex the Nazi-dominated free city of Danzig, and that Germany be given control over a 25-mile wide strip of land between Germany and East Germany, created by the Versailles Treaty to give Poland access to the Baltic Sea. Attempts by the Allies to persuade Hitler to negotiate with the Poles were unsuccessful. After signing the Nazi-Soviet Pact, which safeguarded his eastern border, Hitler sent his air and land forces into Poland on September 1, 1939. Warsaw and other Polish cities were bombed.

Britain and France declared war on Germany (September 3) when Germany ignored their demands to cease its attack and withdraw.

Commonly Believed Cause of WW3

In his State of the Union address and other speeches, President Bush attempted to articulate the reasons for going to war with Iraq and ousting Saddam Hussein. Essentially the three main objectives: (1) to eliminate Saddam's weapons of mass destruction (WMD); (2) to diminish the threat of international terrorism; and (3) to promote democracy in Iraq and surrounding areas.

However, many believed the war was the administration's goal of preventing OPEC's use of the Euro as an oil transaction currency standard. In order to pre-empt OPEC, the US needed to gain geo-strategic control of Iraq along with its 2nd largest proven oil reserves.

Many claimed the war was illegal (didn't obtain UN sanction) and still others state the war was about gaining control of valuable Iraqi oil.

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The Real Cause of WW3

The Third World War was foreseen to be between Zionism and Islam. This prediction is incredible in many ways, beginning with the understanding that this prediction of a third world war occurred in 1870, a time when Israel did not exist as a nation, and when no one believed it would ever exist again.

The vision predicted that out of the smoke and destruction of this World War, a new leader will stride triumphantly, to put an end to the War, and to finally give the embattled world "Peace and Safety".

Interestingly, to back up this prediction, a report was released in December 1996 by The U.S. House of Representatives' Task Force On Terrorism And Unconventional Warfare. It was entitled, 'Approaching the New Cycle of Arab-Israeli Fighting'. In brief, the report tells us that such nations as Syria, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Egypt are planning and building for a final, devastating war of annihilation against Israel. This includes acquiring nuclear, biological and chemical weapons (NBC) in a mix with conventional weapons, e.g. tanks, aircraft, and soldiers, all in massive, overwhelming numbers."

WW2 Ended

September 2, 1945

WW3 Ended

Only time will tell...

Duration of WW2

6 years and 1 day

Duration of WW3

Only time will tell...

Casualties in WW2

Soviet Union

25,568,000

China

11,324,000

Germany

7,060,000

Poland

6,850,000

Japan

1,806,000

Yugoslavia

1,700,000

Romania

985,000

France

810,000

Greece

520,000

USA

495,000

Austria

480,000

Italy

410,000

Great Britain

388,000

Holland

250,000

Belgium

85,000

Finland

79,000

Canada

42,000

India

36,000

Australia

29,000

Albania

28,000

Spain

22,000

Bulgaria

21,000

New Zealand

12,000

Norway

10,000

South Africa

9,000

Luxembourg

5,000

Denmark

4,000

TOTAL

59,028,000

Casualties in WW3

If the World Trade Center attack on September 11 2001 is considered the trigger required to start World War 3, a total of 3,000 should be added to the figures below.

I purposely left out the statistics of WW1. That war was concluded in a completely irresponsible treaty, signed in Versailles, France, which contributed to the then Weimar Republic in Germany to fail, creating the vacuum for Hitler to gain control as foreseen in a prophetic way by the then British foreign Minister who participated as delegate in the treaty of Versailles.It has been a train of though, if not policy, by Woodrow Wilson (1st WW) and then the Eisenhower and the Roosevelt administration (2nd WW) to engage in countries affairs deliberately, pressed by either dreams of world domination or issues pressed upon by the ever so mighty oil cartel. Pearl Harbor was known to be attacked by Japan, but they did not warn or inform the base. Pearl Harbor was the key-stone that America officially could enter into the meddling of WW2. So the "sacrifice" was deliberate to achieve such goals.Now that Bush (just an other oil cartel lackey) has endorsed the meddling involvement in Iraq and the Middle East, this avenue of thought prevails, against all decelerations and warnings from the "founding fathers" of the constitution, namely George Washington, to not interfere in other nations problems without good cause.The more I think of how we got engaged deliberately into a Third World War Scenario by the Bush family, the more I have to puke.

The middle class has been wiped out by US legislation and their somber politicians, the US dollar is worth shit and the barrel of oil is $140 and rising. The housing market is not in a slump, it barely exists and hence the once famous diversity within US population has come to a "have and have not" status. Time to take some heavy duty drugs purchased around the corner at the local crack house - or else start WW3, and the latter has already begun...

If the US-American people would be illuminated and had real guts, they should start a revolt (as the founding fathers did with England) by eliminating all tax payments to the government. Then the sharks would starve to death and the pricks and princess/es of oil would have nowhere to go.Wouldn't that be a "brave new world" in a new dimension?

Friday, June 27

How is it possible that people in Zimbabwe need to vote at all?First Mugabe intimidates the competition so no one is left in the race, then he orders (now being the sole candidate of choice) the common folks to "vote" for him. What's that got to do with voting? You got one party, a one man situation and you are being asked, or sometimes threatened, to vote for the present boss?That Mugabe guy is hitting 90 years soon. Time to declare him an Alzheimer-baby!

I will admit that I don't understand all that much about African politics and African countries, but the woman who I taught clay modeling to, who did her teacher training in the US to become a Waldorf teacher abroad, taught me and enlightened me of how village life actually works in Zimbabwe. Listening to her story and comparing it to Mugabe's aspirations, I came to the conclusion that Mugabe is just an other enemy of the people, the enemy of the people he actually is supposed to serve.

Thursday, June 26

I have no desire to take pictures these days,I don't crave to rhyme a verse,nor speak about shitty politicians or other religions.

I just live, and I have little to saywhile working my ass off to get ahead.

I don't think this is entirely bad,considering the circumstances.

So forgive me for not posting anything fancy -those days will come back when I shout out: NOW!____________________________________________________________

Epilogue:It has been a strange early summer. Since weeks it is warm or quite hot on the east-coast in the mornings, followed by thunderstorms every afternoon. This makes me think that this could become a sub-tropical enclave. Time to plant palm-trees and avocados. But what will happen throughout the winter months, destroy them all again? What a vicious cycle._____________________________________________________________

Thursday, June 19

The dog days are here to stay, they all saynothing you'll hear but an occasional barkwhen people sleepwalk astrayand talk into the darkwhile I work awaystop right hereno sharkno fear.

The glitz of humanity has lost its sanitydeeper and deeper we creep and flowto places of hiding, nowhere to go sometimes I call this vanitywhen little is saidas of today -pray.

It is time to launch a new revolution, right now!and I don't say this lightly, nor with shameoil is running out, a superb smelly fluid who are we going to to blame,the masters of the cows?I would become a druidnow, just right now,if that would help.

Dog days are haunting me, nothing to do but work my daily shiftthe better world is around the corner, so I've been toldbut as you can see from this verbal riftmy soul has been ravenously soled,ominous, before the final shiftfrom these days of old.Keep barking._______________________________________________________________

Tuesday, June 10

Mid' nineties Fahrenheit and super humidity for three days in a row, does it to you. Time to strip and take off unnecessary layers. I didn't have photo opportunities today, so for the spirit of the situation I threw some older pics I took onto the studio floor, and here they are...The top two were part of an exhibition. The prints 20x30 inches, taken through a window reflecting clouds and trees as well. Hence the "cut off" head of the second one (I actually sold three of them for a fair price).The lower two were taken in front of my studio a couple of summers ago, spontaneously. The girl then - is now a content mother-woman. Time flies by.

In general I love the human body, and I have no complicated puritanic mental blockage preventing me to record it, either in stone, paintings or photographs. Nudity should be surrounded by an aura of beauty and pride, nothing else will do.

Tuesday, June 3

Have your cake and eat it too! The Aussie celebrated his 30th something birthday. A day earlier he told me: "Before you leave the island for a few weeks, you will pay me the $80 dollars you owe me, or I will kill you!" Good old Crocodile Dundee speak. I payed him of course. Next time I hire help it will be a woman though, still dangerous, but perhaps less threatening. The one I have in mind is not in any of these pictures. I do not wish to give my secrets away. But all I can tell you is that she will be ready and ambitious, a good worker and a fine person to be with, eager to get the job done without them death threats (jokingly or not...) But in defense of David, the Aussie, he is a great guy - so is his native American Mikmak woman! (the one with the cake). After all, my blessings as a witness helped them to get married. A fabulous couple indeed!